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Anarchy - A Graphic Guide

by: Clifford Harper

Publication date: 1987

Usage: CC0 1.0 Universal

Topics: History, Anarchy, Autonomy, Art

Collection: opensource

Language: English

LIke all really good ideas, Anarchy is pretty simple when you get down to it -- human beings are at their best when they are living free of authority, deciding things among themselves rather than being ordered about.

That's what the word means -- "without government". A lot of the time most of us know this anyway (though there are a few oddballs out there who enjoy being pushed around), but we also know how difficult it can usually be doing anything for yourself -- if you try you're likely to break some law or contravene some regulation or other.

But throughout human history people have tried to do just that. To live freely. Sometimes on their own, sometimes in small groups, some times in great popular movements.

That's what Anarchy - a Graphic Guide is all about. It's a brief account of some of those people and some of those attempts to build a world and live a life free of imposed authority..